... On my drive home yesterday from the trail, I found a little piece of black grit in my ear. I wondered where it had come from. Seriously, I have never

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Shane wrote:

>>>I always just tie a little knot in the end of the foot-end rope when I
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>>It must be nicer than I thought not to have a head end of the hammock.
>>This also gets the whole hammock used equally.
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>Long before I got a Hennessy, I always had a foot end and a head end. I
>never wanted to sleep with my face where my feet were the night before.
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>Shane
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On my drive home yesterday from the trail, I found a little piece of
black grit in my ear. I wondered where it had come from.

Seriously, I have never given it a thought. I never put my shoes into
the hammock, and do a pretty good job of keeping clean on the trail,
both head and foot. I must admit that I have never smelled dirty foot
odor when lying down. I do wash my hammock every few outings, which has
become much easier since I began whipping the ends instead of tying them.

Risk

Shane

... take ... Long before I got a Hennessy, I always had a foot end and a head end. I never wanted to sleep with my face where my feet were the night before.

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> >I always just tie a little knot in the end of the foot-end rope when I

take

> >it down.

> It must be nicer than I thought not to have a head end of the hammock.
> This also gets the whole hammock used equally.

Long before I got a Hennessy, I always had a foot end and a head end. I
never wanted to sleep with my face where my feet were the night before.

Shane

jonas4321@juno.com

... I have not tried the whipping method, but I had to take my hammock apart today to dry it out, and I was VERY happy with how easy it was to get the double

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> I do wash my hammock every few outings, which
> has become much easier since I began whipping the ends instead of tying

> them.

I have not tried the whipping method, but I had to take my hammock
"apart" today to dry it out, and I was VERY happy with how easy it was to
get the double sheet bend out of the hammock/webbing (even while the
tubular nylon webbing was soaked). I am totally sold on it as an end
knot., as it uses up very little material. The pics I put up last week
are the very knots I had to untie today. They had been in there for about
a half-dozen nights of use (and lots of tests).

Now that they are out, I am going to make little "hammock huggers" using
this knot and polypro webbing, and then use rope between that and my tree
straps. Leaving your fly loose just before a storm is stupid, but it sure
enables the "improvements"!

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